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*** This dataverse contains the files needed to replicate the analysis in "Purchasing Power: US Overseas Defense Spending and Military Statecraft", Brian Blankenship and Renanah Miles Joyce, Journal of Conflict Resolution.
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*** Created: 4-30-19
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*** NOTE: any questions, please contact Brian Blankenship, bxb731@miami.edu.
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This file is the ReadMe for the replication package of our Journal of Conflict Resolution article. The Harvard Dataverse page contains the following files:

- ReadMe.txt. This file.

- Replication do-file.do: a Stata .do file that transforms ReplicationDataset.tab into the version needed for replication of our results

- ReplicationDataset.dta: the Stata (version 13) dataset that can be used to replicate the tables and figures 

- Contracts_2000-2003.csv; Contracts_2004-2007.csv; Contracts_2008-2011.csv; Contracts_2012-2015.csv: the full dataset containing all U.S. contract-actions between 2000-2015 where the place of performance was outside the United States. The data are broken up into four different files to make them a manageable size, each of which contains the contracts for a four year period (2000-2003; 2004-2007; 2008-2011; 2012-2015).

- SpendingData_countryyear.dta: the country-year dataset containing annual US overseas spending by country, where the contracting department is the Department of Defense. Also includes our binary coding of U.S. military access for countries in Africa.

- Contracts_Africa.csv: all Department of Defense contract-actions between 2000 and 2015 where the place of performance was a country in Africa 

- Africa location coding.do: a Stata .do file that uses Contracts_Africa.csv to code the country-years where the United States had military access in Africa

- BlankenshipJoyce_ProcurementSpending_Codebook.pdf: the codebook that describes the datasets.